Starfield has "something big going on behind the scenes"
"Something big is going on behind the scenes" at Starfield.That's according to players who have been poking around in S…
I just want to know when it's going start being fun.
I hear they’re going to release a patch for that on June 31st.
... aaand it's layoffs.
Big layoffs
Aside from completely redesigning the world and side quests, there's nothing they can tack on to the game as is that would make it worth playing again. It's boring and missing the one thing they actually did pretty well in everything else: environmental storytelling. You can't exactly use environmental story-telling when your game's environment is mostly randomly generated; which is what all the areas outside the main cities are. Randomly generated set-pieces that are scattered around an otherwise empty planet.
I thought the one thing everyone agreed was done well in their last games was "pick any direction, you'll find something interesting". Which is also missing on this game
They're procedurally generated, but I never got a whiff of them being randomly generated. Are you sure? And even if they were, it's not incompatible with environmental storytelling if those things are components in their model for generating environments.
Strange. I have more playtime in starfield than Skyrim. And the thing that draws me in is the story.
It's like it got most things right that Outer Worlds got wrong.
Yall are getting downvoted, but I think it's great that you have a game you like. I can even see the perspective of this being a better Outer Worlds. I think people like myself are just upset that we didn't get scifi skyrim. Just saying "scifi skyrim" got me excited again for a game that they unfortunately did not release. Don't take the downvotes personally imo, people are just mad at Bethesda.
I would rather play Outer Worlds than Starfield, and I hated Outer Worlds because it was sold to me as being Fallout 4 with a better dialogue system and it's not even remotely different. Like everyone complained that FO4 only had 3 choices "Yes, no, and funny yes" but that's exactly how it's done in Outer Worlds, too.
As someone just finishing up a first playthrough of The Outer Worlds, I might have to watch for a Starfield sale.
Entire dev team about to be fired
The player will be thrilled when they release it.
My initial response is prob as sarcastic as the others but a thought just occurred to me.
Skyrim, v1. The og release, before all the mods and bug fixes.
Undoubtedly still a better game than Star field. But was it the Skyrim we revere today? Will Starfield be transformed into something fun over the next decade?
What am I on about. Almost certainly not lol.
Skyrim was fun which is why its endured. Starfield is unfortunately fundamentally a bit boring and feels dated - they didn't learn from the RPGs that came after Skyrim and moved things forward (Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 spring to mind).
I doubt it'll be fixed. Its not like No Man's Sky -the developers only game and their number one priority. I think well get the usual small DLCs and Bethesda moves on to its next big project.
I hope they learn from Starfield and make the next elder scrolls something special.
So maybe I haven't played enough of Witcher 3 to understand your comment from that perspective, but how did Cyberpunk 2077 move RPGs forward? I found it lacking when compared to Skyrim/Fallout 3/Fallout NV?
Other than being super broken, it's still the same game at its core, minus the DLC content and the graphical updates (and the paid mod store).
I think the only non-MMO that was completely transformed over time with patches I can think of is No Man's Sky
That's a stupid take. Skyrim 1.0 was essentially the same game as it is today.
Is this sarcasm? It's lost on me
It's bugs, they're cooking up more bugs
How about they make the game fun?
I am replaying Skyrim at the moment. When you start the game after being cut loose after Helgen, you have a quest that nudges you towards Whiterun. The typical path usually goes Helgen - > Riverwood - > Whiterun. Between any of these three steps, you can veer off the track and find some cool stuff to do. Just near Helgen, there's a fortress near the Cyrodiil Border, Embershard Mine, random bandit encampments, and if you are brave enough at level 1, Bleak Falls Barrow. You can play all of this without ever having to pause the game.
Starfield has none of that. When you land on a new planet, all of the caves are the same. There's no environmental storytelling, and in order to fast travel, you must stop the flow of the game.
It's not fair saying the game isn't fun. Millions of people had fun trashing it over social media. It's just passively fun.
They had an opportunity to make Fallout 5, but instead they chose this. It's been 9 years Bethesda, 9 YEARS.
Cries in elder scrolls
They made 76, and apparently it's a big financial success
And at this points it’s honestly a pretty damn decent and fun game. At its core it’s fallout 4 on a server. Improved legendary system, one of if not the best map of any fallout, the best radio, some great quests and content. It’s absolutely worth trying out at this point for any fallout fan that hasn’t. Yeah it’s still not perfect and I wish I could actually pause, and it can be a bit hard at times but it’s total scratches the fallout itch even if just randomly exploring and not really doing quests. I also never really interacted with other players
played for about 20hrs and put it down never to be picked up again most boring space game ever
Did they finally fixed some of the 1 year old bugs?
Too late sad trumpet 🎺
is it good writers? were they hiding this whole time, and ready to finally come out and rewrite the entire game?
Honestly, I think you could fix that game but it involves making the jetpack the focus of exploration and combat.
Honestly, I think just making the forward-burst functionality work for controller users instead of as a "keyboard hack" is enough.
Did starfield become profitable? Did they cover their develop and marketing costs yet?
Starfield was a gamepass game, so it entered the vague subscription zone. Microsoft seemed happy with it.
Hard to say if has been profitable as it was in development for a long time. However it probably sold well on the account that people trusted Bethesda to make a Bethesda experience. They effectively traded their remaining good will for sales.
Yeah, that's what they have been saying for years
Is it a different, better game?
Yeah maybe a standalone expansion that is way more fun than the original kinda like far cry 3 blood dragon. Use the core of an awful game to make something fun.
My first thought too
can't wait, i know everyone else here hates it, but Starfield was EXACTLY the kind of game I like, I still play it often and love getting lost in it.
Starfield Online (with microtransactions).
Big if true
